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As September Approaches,
Does Baseball Really Matter?

By

Carl Bialik and

Jason Fry The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Aug. 22, 2002 10:20 a.m. ET

In less than three weeks it will be Sept. 11 again.

The U.S. will look back on the terrorist attacks of a year ago and mourn its dead. But that's not all that will be happening that day. Life will go on, in ways big and small. And barring a strike or the speedy resolution of one, baseball will go on. And that, depending on your point of view, is either an atrocity, a patriotic act, or means nothing at all.